Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Department of Veterans Affairs says it's collaborating with Apple to boost the availability of telehealth services for veterans across the U.S. The program connects qualifying veterans with iPads, helping 50,000 of them more easily take part in telehealth services and access other VA virtual healthcare services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Patients searching online for health information and health care provider reviews is mainstream in 2019. Rock Health’s Digital Health Consumer Adoption Report for 2019 was developed in collaboration with the Stanford Medicine Center for Digital Health. Digital health tracking is now adopted by 4 in 10 U.S. Amazon down 8 points.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2021

The first issue was that it did not have a formal telemedicine solution in place. Second, it did not have sufficient resources to run telemedicine for the entire organization once it procured the necessary software. The provider organization procured NextGen's Otto telemedicine system, which solved this issue.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 3, 2022

"This historical reimbursement structure has been beneficial from a coordinated-care perspective, but until COVID, the financial feasibility of telehealth for FQHCs has been challenging." "We used the Lean Six Sigma framework to optimize our telehealth workflows." " Sarah Compton, One Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

MCHS had multiple telehealth platforms prior to COVID-19. MCHS has offered telehealth services for almost 25 years, which prepared the organization to respond to COVID-19. Prior to COVID-19, MCHS offered 45 of its more than 90 specialties via telehealth in its clinical facilities. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The provider organization believed telehealth was the future, but had only been using the technology in small niches, such as school-based care. When COVID-19 hit, the organization was required to use telehealth in a much broader sense. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2022

McAllister, assistant vice president of population health and telemedicine. "Telemedicine directly to patients also was used to address the ongoing healthcare needs of patients with chronic illnesses to reduce in-person clinic visits," she continued. " Shannon R. Click here to read the special report. " RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Carie Telehealth Insider

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here are a few key trends in this medical paradigm shift for 2019: Shifting to wellness rather than illness. Telemedicine can play a huge role in the adoption of holistic medicine by keeping patients connected with doctors who are able to answer questions and provide continual guidance throughout their health journey.

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GlobalMed

JULY 15, 2019

There’s a predictable turning point in any debate about telehealth. But inevitably they’ll worry that the quality of the virtual visit just isn’t as good as an in-person visit – that telemedicine is “impersonal.”. percent of the visit on direct face time and 37 percent on EHR and desk work. Contact Us.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2020

The Boston-based MA FQHC Telehealth Consortium was created for Federally Qualified Health Centers to come together to master telehealth so that their patients could access quality care despite the pandemic. Supporting patient-side enablement and access also is a persistent issue for FQHCs seeking to do more telehealth.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Working in telemedicine can leave you feeling disconnected from others.

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American Well

AUGUST 28, 2016

Telemedicine Today: August 2016. Welcome to the August 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! Regardless of where you live or work, telehealth is making an incredible impact. Ben Lawrence, director of nursing at Hughenden Hospital, said the telehealth service is drastically improving patient care. Learn More.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 6, 2023

Offering SUD treatment during incarceration through telehealth has officially moved prison telehealth into the fast lane. Telehealth has been used to prescribe and monitor the use of medications like buprenorphine successfully. Telephonic Telehealth Opioid Treatment Found Effective

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 1, 2021

Before 2020, HopeHealth, based in Florence, South Carolina, faced two problems with its telehealth offerings. For this problem, we adopted a remote patient monitoring solution from FORA Telehealth," Whitfield continued. Second, HopeHealth's supply of telehealth hardware was out of date and lacked clinical peripherals.

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GlobalMed

JULY 31, 2019

S ooner or later, ROI comes up in every telemedicine conversation. By dissolving typical referral challenges, telemedicine can prevent financial loss – like when patients walk out the door to another health system and take with them potential reimbursement. Revenue and Reimbursement Loss. Provider reputation. Referral challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2023

Prior to the pandemic, PrimaryOne Health dealt with regulations that prevented routine telemedicine visits with patients. However, once the pandemic started, the rules and demand for care changed in a way that let us quickly deploy telehealth services. "The team quickly developed the plan and it went live," McGlade said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. " EHRs: Automation can help. Burnout has been an ongoing scourge at hospitals for years now, and the crushing demands of the pandemic have only made it worse for physicians , nurses , telehealth managers and others.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Allscripts filed a trademark lawsuit in federal district court on Thursday against CarePortMD, a Delaware-based telehealth company. In the suit, the EHR giant argues that it has used the CarePort trademark since 2013 and that in 2018 the telemedicine company changed its name from ER at Home to CarePortMD. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

For context, “Big Tech” in this report covers activity among eight companies between January 2019 and March 22, including: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, IBM, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung and these organizations’ subsidiaries. Why Big Tech and why now?

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American Well

APRIL 29, 2021

As COVID-19 vaccines continue to be rolled out and a post-pandemic world seems within reach, it is still important to reflect on the past year and how our clients exemplified telehealth excellence and led the way in providing and expanding access to quality care. M Health Fairview. MedStar Health. National Association of Letter Carriers.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 14, 2019

Where is the telemedicine industry going? The telehealth landscape is full of Direct-To-Consumer telehealth vendors who promise virtual care but deliver “care” either by telephone or simplistic video calls. But today’s patients and providers are looking for the path to intelligent telemedicine – and E.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Sparrow Health System in Lansing, Michigan, began developing a virtual care strategy in October 2019 – well before COVID-19 struck – with the hope of leveraging the technology as a tool to support patient care and the organizational strategy, rather than as a stand-alone strategy in and of itself. Telehealth plans quickly changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

" Before the pandemic hit in March 2020, El Camino had moved in the direction of telehealth, but virtual care was still a tool the hospital did not yet have. We selected Amwell as our telehealth vendor and planned to initiate implementation during the first quarter of 2020." " Then COVID-19 hit. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 7, 2022

For instance, the use of telehealth services has increased dramatically. According to the Journal of the American Medicine Association, telehealth visits increased from 840,000 in 2019 to 52.7 In addition, 92 percent of telehealth visits occurred in beneficiaries’ homes, which generally wasn’t permitted before the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies. by May 10, 2019. by MobiHealthNews Staff April 08, 2019. by March 25, 2019.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 12, 2019

A patient has presented to the emergency department with a ruptured ovarian cyst; before you operate, you use the surgical suite’s telemedicine platform to consult with the patient’s gynecologist, who provides valuable history. Telemedicine is on the rise. Providers turn to telehealth apps that don’t integrate with the hospital EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 7, 2020

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

JANUARY 9, 2019

In the healthcare industry, telehealth was once thought of as futuristic. Approximately 89 percent of healthcare leaders expect telehealth to transform U.S. This is especially true for millennials, 60 percent of whom say they support the use of telehealth to replace in-office physician visits. Government in Action.

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TheraNest

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Unlike the secure and HIPAA-compliant telehealth video platform provided by TheraNest, Apple’s FaceTime is not HIPAA compliant and therefore should never be used to see clients or complete telehealth sessions. However, even with the bug fixed FaceTime remains a non-HIPAA compliant platform for telehealth sessions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

'Super-scaling' telemedicine. " Christiana Care had to "super-scale" telemedicine, he said, it had to position the non-clinical and even some of the clinical workforce at home. "We set records for telehealth, conducting more visits in one month than in the entire previous year.

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GlobalMed

JUNE 4, 2019

H ealthcare IT’s growing tech stack means providers must navigate platforms that don’t always work together, EHR systems that require significant training and support, and security controls that can block productivity and access to critical data. Telemedicine Boosts Provider Productivity. Request a Demo.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 3, 2023

Horizon Health Services, a behavioral health provider in New York, in November 2019 deployed telemedicine technology with the goal of meeting the demands of patients and the ever-changing world of technology. That accelerated the use of telehealth for Horizon and the world. And Horizon’s telehealth maturity evolved.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

I called this out in my 2019 book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. Pew collaborated with Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research to conduct a survey in June and July 2020 among 1,213 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs. The crisis sets in.

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